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While talking to black and white Republicans recently about the Grand Old Party's outreach efforts to voters of color, I wondered: What are Democrats doing to reach working-class whites? Much has been said and written — some of it by me — about how desperately Grand Old Party leaders seek to woo voters of color back to the GOP, the fabled “party of Lincoln” to which earlier generations of African-Americans were fondly devoted. The surprisingly robust exodus of Hispanic, Asian, unmarried women and young voters, too, in Mitt Romney's racially lopsided 2012 presidential election loss convinced GOP chairman Reince Priebus and other moderate GOP leaders that,...

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While talking to black and white Republicans recently about the Grand Old Party's outreach efforts to voters of color, I wondered: What are Democrats doing to reach working-class whites?
Much has been said and written — some of it by me — about how...

Earlier this month at a Washington prayer breakfast President Obama attempted to put the current distortion of Islam by forces such as ISIS into perspective. With a good dose of Christian humility he commented: "During the Crusades and the...

Prime Minister Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu knows that he can't win the election on March 17. The arithmetic is against him from the left and the right. The new Arab party, which unites Islamists, Nationalists, Communists and just plain Arab...

When Panthers 6-foot-6 right wing Jimmy Hayes goes up against his younger brother Kevin, a 6-5 rookie center for the Rangers for the second time this season, there will be a couple of proud men watching from different perches in Madison Square Garden.
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President Barack Obama's absence from the great gathering in Paris of national leaders from other countries, to show their solidarity with France in its opposition to Islamic terrorists, was another sign of the Obama administration's continuing...

President Barack Obama will propose new legislation Tuesday aimed at fostering increased sharing between government agencies and the private sector to help improve cybersecurity.
The legislation would encourage the private sector to share cyber threat...

Talk about being tone deaf.
The Obama administration spent Monday admitting the error of its ways, saying the United States should have sent a high-level official to the anti-terrorism unity rally in Paris on Sunday, a show of support that attracted more...

Mario Cuomo, a son of Italian immigrants who became an eloquent spokesman for a generation of liberal Democrats during his three terms as governor of New York but couldn't quite bring himself to run for president, has died. He was 82.
Cuomo died Thursday...

In the current issue of Hadassah Magazine, Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Laureate for Peace since 1986, tells the story of a television interview in which he was asked what he would say to God if he could talk to him. His answer was: "I would say one word....

The opera "The Death of Klinghoffer" opened this week in New York. Rightly castigated for its invocation of unpleasant Jewish stereotypes and its apologia for the Palestinian terrorists' murder of an elderly Jewish tourist in a wheelchair, its...

Leticia Vives thought her rise from teller to senior teller to manager during 23 years at Bank of America had earned her staying power, or at least the experience to find work elsewhere.
Still jobless 18 months after being let go in a downsizing move,...

President Obama's top environmental advisers lauded South Florida for racing ahead of other regions of the United States in preparing for high sea levels.
They spoke Wednesday to more than 500 South Florida public officials, scientists, business people...

Jeb Bush is off and running. He announced this week that he would "actively explore" a 2016 presidential run. He also promised to release emails from his days as Florida's governor. He quit a lucrative financial adviser gig at a British bank and...

Julia Pierson's head has been delivered on the proverbial platter. She resigned as head of the Secret Service, avowing that stepping down is "in the best interests of the agency."
Congress made a rare display of bipartisanship, forming a...

The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted for the 55th time to defund or repeal the Affordable Care Act. The repeals would reverse coverage of pre-existing conditions, family plans that include children up to age 26, lifetime benefits, preventive...

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WASHINGTON — The old frenemies sat in the Oval Office on Wednesday, their chair legs 18 inches apart, attempting some reasonable facsimile of personal chemistry. Maybe the 12th time would be the charm.
President Obama leaned back, elegantly cross-legged....

Republicans want you to believe the Obama White House is in disarray.
Maybe, for once, they are right.
Maybe disarray is not the proper word, but there sure seems to be some problems, with President Obama now looking for his fourth...

Addressing the nation last Thursday, President Obama sought to justify his misreading of the Constitution by unilaterally granting legal protection to 5 million illegal immigrants. In this, he reminded me of what Richard Nixon told David Frost in a 1977...

This time the D.C. accommodations weren't quite as prestigious.
For the first time in three years, time in Washington doesn't include time at the White House for the Miami Heat, their two-year NBA championship run ending in June.
Monday, that meant a...